Beauty Nail Art: duochrome

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Orly Lunar Eclipse

This is 2 coats of the beautiful Orly Lunar Eclipse. It's a gorgeous true blue shimmer with purple duochrome. I got lots of compliments while wearing this one!

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Orly Space Cadet

This is 3 coats of Orly Space Cadet; it definitely needs a 4th coat. Very sheer, but gorgeous duochrome, purple & green foil. I was wearing a red shirt which is reflected in some of the photos.

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Happi is a Barbie pink loaded with duochrome shimmer that changes from greenish yellow to soft orange. It's a wee bit brushstrokey and may even appear frosty to some. Application was okay but cleanup was harder than usual and I had to go over the mistakes several times with my trusty corrector pen.

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China Glaze Tempest & Orly Lunar Eclipse

China Glaze - Tempest, 3 coats

Ah Tempest, you're one of my very favourite lacquers. ♥ The formula was watery but not especially runny and I had to do three thick coats to get full opacity. Tempest has a very shy duochrome side to her but it's there alright!

China Glaze - Tempest & Orly - Lunar Eclipse, 3 + 2 coats

I tried to stamp some snowflakes over Tempest but that was a big fat fail, so I grabbed Lunar Eclipse and hid the offending designs with two coats of this liquid loveliness.

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Orly Galaxy Girl

This is 3 coats of Orly Galaxy Girl, my favorite from the Cosmic FX collection. It's a drop dead gorgeous, dark reddish purple with turquoise glass-fleck. The formula isn't the best. It's sheer yet thick, but worth the extra effort for this beauty. Galaxy Girl is darker than I normally love, but it never looks black because it's always flashing turquoise.

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Nubar Peacock Feathers & Seche Vite FAIL

Nubar - Peacock Feathers, 3 coats

I hate Seche Vite. Look how it shrank and pulled the lacquer underneath with it? I'm done with SV, I gave it a fair chance (and another... and another... and...) it's only good for pedicures. The Nubar wasn't that hot either, the formula was watery and the polish flooded my cuticles. The bristles were unusually hard (for a Nubar brush) and somewhat splayed. Still, it's a very pretty colour. I don't know it the newer bottles suffer from the awful formula, mine is at least 1½ years old - any info on how the newer batches are? Read Full...

Stuf. 56 Beam & Orly Space Cadet

stuf. - 56 Beam, 3 coats

This stunning purple to orange to green duochrome was yet another of my eBay bargain finds along with another lacquer by stuf., a blue to violet iridescent glitter which is a dupe for Sinful Colors' Pearl Harbour. Incidentally, 56 Beam is a dead-on dupe for another HTF lacquer, Rimmel's Zeitgeist, which I also own. The only difference between the two is that Zeitgeist is more opaque, requiring two coats whereas the stuf. lacquer had thinned down probably due to its age and needed three coats to eliminate VNL. Stuf. were an Australian brand who closed down years ago so eBay is your best bet if you wish to hunt this pretty little gem down.

stuf. - 56 Beam & Orly Space Cadet, 3 + 1 coats

Since the Orly is also sheer I layered it over the stuf. lacquer. They're identical in their duochrominess with the execption of Space Cadet being a ~~glass fleck~~ foil and 56 Beam a shimmer. Me likes! Pics taken with mum's Canon PowerShot S95 (I still prefer my G6 over it, the S95 messes up the colours and I had to do a lot of colour correcting).

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BeYu 381

BeYu - 381, 2 coats

BeYu 381 is a beautiful violet to blue to green duo/multichrome lacquer. The violet is more evident in shade and the green shows up while tilting your fingers. The change was hard to capture as it's not apparent on nail as it is in the bottle. 381 has very small light blue glitter and what I think are sparse green and blue glass flecks mixed in a shimmer base. The formula was ok although I had to thin this one out a bit. Like INGLOT, BeYu do not give their lacquers proper names which I think is a darn shame.

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OPI The Show Must Go On!

OPI - The Show Must Go On!, 2 coats

This was the first OPI that I chose to wear from their Burlesque collection. The Show Must Go On is a foil that flashes red, orange and pink depending from the angle. I wore this to the Lady GaGa concert in Helsinki and got compliments from the two MAC ladies when I went to see if they had any bottles of Bad Fairy left (fat chance).

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Revlon Silver Switch

Revlon - Silver Switch, 2 coats

Silver Switch is an old, discontinued shade from their Color Illusion series. Application was a bit tricky it having a metallic finish but the sheer prettines of the polish makes up for its other flaws. The colour changes from purple to two different tones of green with a hint of silver.

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